Just a quick note today: we’ve had quite the week at NoPro this time out, and the E.I. group is hopping.
Next week is going to be even more intense, as we’ve got the Without Walls festival in San Diego at the end of the week and a big announcement at the top of the week.
So batten down the hatches, we’re about to turn all this up to 11.
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Julia Henning, founder of The Halogen Company, is a familiar presence on the LA immersive scene. As an actor she’s performed with Just Fix It Productions (Haus of Creep), The Speakeasy Society (Johnny III), and in Darren Lynn Bousman’s Lust Experience and Theatre Macabre.
As Creative Director of Halogen, she’s taken the company into both traditional and immersive endeavors, with One Exit, and the planned Sea of Odds.
BONUS PODCAST
LIVE from The Dragon & Meeple in Los Angeles we put on a talkback to help launch Blue Blade Saga: Alt-Delete by GreatCo and the creator of Delusion. Jon Braver (Delusion) and Carl Choi (GreatCo) join our own Noah Nelson in conversation.
The all-new “mini-Delusion” takes the best of what Delusion has to offer and squeezes it into the back room at The Dragon & Meeple, an awesome tabletop gaming pub by USC.
We get into what Alt-Delete is, Jon’s process, the business of immersive, and just what board games and immersive theatre have in common.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
NYC: Catastrophe Club, Ghost Town on the Oregon Trail, The Other Side, UCC OMEGA,
Montreal: Antonin Artaud’s Spurt of Blood
Cincinnati: War of the Malls, Beauty and the Bourbon Tasting
Chicago: Broken Bone Bathtub,
Dallas: Disturbance
Edmonton: Dead Centre of Town XII
SF: Into the Dark: Terror Vault and Apocalypse
LA: Nothing Special, The Tragedie of Macbeth: An Immersive Experience, Sinister Pointe — Mist, Bite, Delusion — Lies Within VR Series,
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
‘Water, Water, Everywhere…’ Is a Glass Half-Full (The NoPro Review)Exquisite Corpse Company’s latest show drowns worthy themes in pessimismnoproscenium.comNot Hating “The Player” in ‘Consequences’ (Review)Playlines and British MC Harry Shotta collab on an AR experiencenoproscenium.comA Swing and a ‘Mist’ in Westminster (Review)SoCal’s Sinister Pointe take a stab at making a new kind of hauntnoproscenium.comPlaying on The Other Side of the Veil: ‘Give Up The Ghost’ (The NoPro Review)We head down to Whittier to do some haunting of our ownnoproscenium.comChallenging Takeaways from Any One Thing’s ‘Souvenir’ (The NoPro Review)This intimate immersive show takes places in a different London home every nightnoproscenium.com‘The Séance’ Summons A Wicked Good Time (Review)Cross Roads Escape Games succeeds at jumping from escape rooms to immersive theatrenoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
The Last Defender was a 16-player escape game/ puzzle hunt hybrid set against the backdrop of Cold War nuclear annihilation. The world of the Last Defender was whimsically serious. The elegance to the onboarding and gameflow was on a level that we rarely encounter.
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
Picks of the Week (10/10–10/16/2019)We divine the answer to the question: “What should I see?”noproscenium.comThe Second-Order Problem: A Participant-Centered Approach to Immersive DesignApplying the lens of situational game design to immersive experiencesnoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
Consider a basket of loaner readers at your escape room or immersive event. Then, should a player forget to bring their own, they could borrow a pair and participate in the experience to the fullest.
Room Escape Artist’s Escape Immerse Explore tour to Montreal in 2020 is almost sold out. Since publishing this announcement, there are only 6 tickets left. Join this incredible escape room tour while you still can!
From Kent Bye of the Voices of VR podcast:
I posted 6 new interviews from Oculus Connect 6 covering the highlights of the announcements from Oculus, but also what wasn’t being said about ethics & privacy. Experiential designers will definitely want to check out episode #826 with Doug North Cook as he talks about fusing together many design practices & talking about input affordances as well as inclusive design for accessibility. Episode #829 with NathieVR has him describe the content ecosystem dynamics from the perspective of an immersive reviewer & influencer. It’s nearly 6 hours of content, so enjoy!
From Errol Elumir of Room Escape Divas:
You probably know this already, but ERIC (Escape Room Industry Conference) is this week!
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I know David Spira is speaking at it! :D
THE DISCOURSE
Discussions and posts from Everything Immersive & Twitter:
NOW FUNDING
Broken Bone Bathtub is making a documentary of their tour and they’re at 96% of their goal as of this writing.
Daemonologie: Smoke & Mirrors
Boston: An immersive game theatre experience where you will decide a woman’s fate. (8 Days Left.)
PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Jobs, Grants, Gigs, and more
Kaleidoscope’s DevLab 2019
DEADLINE: October 14, 2019
DevLab is a six-week content accelerator for immersive films, games, apps, art, and experiences. The program incubates 10 new projects each year with weekly lectures and mentorship from a multidisciplinary group of advisors. The program culminates with First Look, where participants will present their projects to industry leaders for a chance to secure funding and distribution.
i-Docs 2020 — Call for Participation
DEADLINE: Oct. 25, 2019
Following the success of five previous i-Docs Symposia, we are pleased to announce the call for participation for i-Docs 2020. Convened by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi, Mandy Rose and Julia Scott-Stevenson, and hosted by UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre, i-Docs 2020 will be held at Watershed in Bristol’s Harbourside on Wednesday to Friday 25–27 March. We invite proposals for papers, pre-constituted panels, case studies, posters and projects to showcase. In addition, this time we also want to encourage alternative and remote forms of participation — both to reduce the carbon footprint of the event and to include delegates otherwise unable to take part.
Workshops
LA: Sophia Stoller’s IRIS Company
We are hosting our first ever Teen Dance Workshop! Join Iris Company dancers and Artistic Director Sophia Stoller for a full day of classes. The schedule for the day includes Gyrokinesis®, Ballet, Contemporary, Company Rep, Improvisation, and CI Training™.
Dancers can drop-in for single classes or join us for the full day. Register before October 14th to get early bird rates!
NYC: Linked Dance Theatre
Immersive Movement Workshop Oct 19
Linked Dance Theatre’s Co-Artistic Directors Kendra Slack and Jordan Chlapecka are hosting a Immersive Movement worksop in our current space for Remembrance on Governors Island for Dancers and Actors interested in immersive movement practices.
Exploring site specific choreography for immersive storytelling with LDT
Techniques including:
- Utilization of space as a container and propeller of narrative.
- Innovation in movement techniques
- Use of movement as a tool to create and break the 4th wall within immersive landscapes
WORLD BUILDING AND MAGIC CIRCLE CREATION
Linked Dance Theatre’s Co-Artistic Directors Kendra Slack and Jordan Chlapecka are hosting a Immersive story workshop: World building and Magic Circle creation.
Be one of 5 to Join us as we share our methods to writing rules for worlds and creating entrance rituals for magic circle creation
Exploring entrance rituals, interactions and creating frameworks and rules for world building.
Techniques including:
- Create a reason for your audience to be there and use it to invite them into your world
- Techniques on creating diagrams for world building
- Concept distilling
LA: Method For Being; The Flow of The TRANSMEDIA ACTOR.
Fiona Rene (The Willows, ABC’s Stumptown) offes a workshop for actors this month.
Join me on OCT 23 from 7–10pm for a very discounted workshop (ONLY $30/PP… in Atwater Village)
We will address;
What is TransMedia?
How does it apply to the Story?
How does it apply to the Character?
How does it apply to the Actor?
How does this make me more money, more confident and more successful in my craft and career.?
PLEASE EMAIL MethodForBeing@gmail.com to RSVP
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